The major cause of all the spam is the.gif/.jpeg style spam. There has been a significant increase of this "newer" spam while the levels of older text type spam are still the same.
What I found interesting (and was unable to locate) was some values a slashdotter posted for his environment. It was something like 8000 spam in OCT 2004 and 56000 spam in OCT 2005. It would be interesting to see what his OCT 2006 values were (If your reading this).
As the article indicated the Zombie farms are going to be the largest problem. Using a form of greylisting to stop or throttle connections will allow you to remove much of the spam prior to it hitting your filters. For those who do not know... A zombie farm is basically a bunch of infected computers that can have commands run remotely against them that they will perform such as a script that generates SMTP traffic. In this case spammers will pay these zombie farm controllers currency to shoot out billions of spam messages.
Anyway, Until we make it illegal to produce/profit of unsolicited email its just going to keep climbing.
When I used to call the fat kid a pig I wasn't to far off. Maybe the whole bacon thing is occuring because the amount of obese people in the world continues to climb? Cut the fat and we will be back to chicken.
I've only flown twice in my life. To Italy and back in September/Oct of this year. When I hit Italy it was a cakewalk. Showed the guy my passport he stamped it and I am in the country.
On the way back into the US it took me almost 3 hours and like 3-4 checkpoints later (In Philly) to finally be allowed to go to my next flight. This caused more than half the people in the line to miss their connection which only had 00:30 to 1:30 layovers. I was astounded at how ridiculous the measure we take in the US are. It still came down to the exact same things as when I landed in Italy they just made me walk through the same type of metal detectors.. take of my shoes etc. It seems VERY redundant. Hell, they even made me fill out a paper saying that I spent X money and brought back X goods into the country. Foriegners had to fill out some other additional form while in flight.
So basically what I am getting at is this: When do we draw the line? Is all of this false sense of saftey really worth the inconvience? If they really wanted to make flights safe they are going to need to stick us in airline jumpsuits (Like prisoners wear) and not allow us to carry anything onto the plane. With all of these saftey measures the guards barely even glanced at my passport. The stupid form I filled out the guy just threw it in a big bucket with the other thousand of them to either be tossed out or parsed through at some later time. How is that making me safe?
If I was a terrorist and trying to get into the country it would be very difficult because terrorists don't have access to finances to be able to purchase anything like a fake passport and clothing. And the security guys actually look up every single passport before they stamp it. And those stupid forms are all processed before they let you through. And you know terrorists are stupid they all carry metal objects like guns in their pocket before they go through the metal detectors.
I have read several articles recently about people only buying audio CD's for some of the special perks inside of them besides just the music. Basically adding value to the CD purchase.
I think fundamentally digital downloads are more consumer friendly because in effect you cut out the middle men (Distrobution Centers/Resellers) and are able to get product directly to the user. Unfortunatly some of the digital download sites are charging to much per song to entice a greater number of legitmate downloaders.
Basically to justify the price of the CD's they need to add additional value and for digital only copies they need to lower the cost. I think their bloated prices are starting to finally catch up with them.
I want to qualify this first.. I am definitly not a scientist. But I am able to logically think things through.
While it is to be exploring different items in our solarsystem would it not be better to use the billions of dollars it costs to create/launch a mission such as this in researching better propulsion or life support systems for actually supporting true space stations or colonization of planets in other solarsystems. I honestly can't justify wasting my tax dollars on a simultaneous multi picture view of the sun. How could this be used to further any relivant research?
Alot of NASA's projects definitly bring "ooh's and ahh's" but are they really helping? Wasn't the last major breakthrough landing a person on the moon? Everything after it seems to be akin to how M$ keeps repackaging the NT kernal with a new interface.
Has anyone found an effective way of cracking regular SSL? Is not the whole point of SSL to just slow down the decryption to a point where even if decrypted the data is old enough to be useless?
I mean hell if SSL is weak encryption and we need stronger encryption should I not SUE verisign right now for providing a false sense of saftey?
Seriously, In an interview they asked some questions based on leadership that are occuring currently in my life. I litterally started the answer with "Don't laugh" And went into explaining Ventrilo and organizing 40 male/female players aged 15-40 into an organized group of people and my major role I took in being the Maintank and Raid leader.
Of course I did not mention the foul language and sexual innuendos that are constantly spouted by... other people:)
That very well may be true. But its funny how the communities opinion changes when a person is caught red handed. In a court that would be viable evidence. In the community at large it would not be. While I don't want "Big Brother" constantly breathing down my neck if I avoid acting like a criminal or in truth being a criminal I don't have much to worry about.
One thing that people seem to fail to realize is stereotypes are there for a reason. People who act suspicious or look suspicious usually are doing some suspicious activity. Unless this person was framed they most likely were involved in activity that sent a red flag up the ladder at HP.
If this was common practice most of us that are posting our very heated opinions on this specific site would have long ago lost our jobs due to company policy.
WoW's craft system was a joke. I initially went with a weaponsmith and quickly learned that you can easily obtain better weapons with much less work. Even top end crafted items are pretty much garbage compared to what I was able to obtain easily in the raids I was leading (Using past tense because I ebayed my char)
DAOC had a solid craft system. Unfortunatly once the population dwindled there were not nearly as many crafters. In the first few years of the game and directly after housing was implimented it was very easy to create/sell your wares.
SWG at inital release before the major revamp had the best craft system todate. The entire game was a player driven economy by the crafters. I could write several pages outlining how great this craft system was but I won't:).
I suppose my question also is a craft system. This is a key feature to any MMO that really brings me to enjoy and stay playing said game for a long period of time. I played WoW for about a year. I played DAOC for about 3 years. The difference in the quality of crafting was night and day. (And I quit SWG cause I prefered sex over SWG.. it was either her or SWG:)
At this point the only speed ISP's talk about is download speed. Even with my 8mbits Cable connection I've never done a single download that maxes this speed. While fast download is great its the other side that most people need to be boosted. However with ISP's not wanting people to be able to run server class systems off their consumer provided "Cheap" internet they are not going to boost the upload caps anytime soon. I suppose it will be funny with a 100mbits down and 500kmbits up connection for only $29.95 for the first 3 months!
Courts should really be required to do at least a little research prior to passing judgement. As it stands right now the average corporate environment has around 80% of outside mail blocked because it is spam. Some of these companies are processing upwards of a million outside mails a day and even after filtering out 80% of the messages their mail servers are hammered. Knocking out a company like Spamhaus would cause every corporation to small business in at least north america to invest in 3-5 times more hardware to handle all of the spam.
The thing that really cracks me up about this whole scenario is this is one of the types of court cases that people still joke about. "You ever hear about the guy who fell through the skylight and broke his leg when attempting to rob the house. And how he won the lawsuit?". If anything our whole law system needs to be reworked.
I would like to point out that using UO is mostly an invalid point of reference.
UO was basically the first Major MMORPG release. The concepts, needed infrastructure and expectations had not been set.
There is well over a decade of history/knowledge that Blizzard could have pooled from experts to garner the information nessicary to pull off a very sucsessful launch.
I play WoW. It is a great game. The server I happened to pick on opening day went from low volume and now is a high volume server.
The lag issues I can deal with. The occasional (around once an hour) client crashes I can deal with.
The major gripe is them implimenting Server Queue's. I understand fully their reasoning. And if the game did not drop you once an hour on average it would not be a bad thing. But with having to wait 1-1.5 hours to even play its a little past being frustrating.
Last night my WoW experiance consisted of this:
Login to 1.5 hour Queue wait. Take 2 flight paths (ruffly 10 mins) Ride a mount through 1 zone (ruffly 5 mins) Kill around 10 creatures (ruffly 10 mins) Zone Crash. Queue wait 1.5 hours. Went and watched WWE wrestling as an alternitive entertainment.
And I bet this was experianced by 10-20% of their players on the high pop servers. SO I would estimate 50-100k people today could share a similar story.
Working in the support field for a software/security company I would have to agree with the "Demographic" as a general stance.
There are however AOL users who choose AOL for several reasons. 1. No other service in their area. 2. They travel ALOT, AOL is available just about everywhere. Thus instead of relying on being in an area where they can use free Wi-Fi or making sure the hotel they stay at offers free connections. They can just dial a local number and they are online.
Now I would say the two I listed are a HUGE percentage but they do make up some.
I will not be supprised if we start seeing statistics/polls manufactured by the tobacco monopolies trying to make this tech out to be "Bad news". This could really cut into their profits if it hits the american market. Next up will be spitless chewing tobacco
>Rich people are richer, the deficit is skyrocketing, we've invaded Iraq and killed 100,000 Iraqis...
I'm sorry but you really need to take a few steps into reality. First - When HAVEN'T the rich gotten richer. It's always been "It takes money to make money". Second - The Deficit is not "Skyrocketing" It's no longer on a downward trend over the next 10 years. I Deficit is already HUGE. And finally - You really need to actually READ the news article claiming 100k iraqi's are dead. They never stated there are 100k dead. They stated that our equation of 250% better chance of dying equates to 100k people dead. There are only 15k reported dead... and i'll be nice Give or take 10k
This is not a MAC bashing. It's just frustrating when people try to use polls to state an opinion other than a fact. Words like "More" Windows computer have been hacked. Well of course they constitute 90% of the computers (declining now). MAC's are solid computers. But my first "Hacked" computer I've ever known was a MAC. I hit a Javascript website that ran a Applescript on me and caused my font to change to something like 500. Since all I could see was one portion of the "Apple logo" boarder I ended up having to reinstall everything. The point is. If people attempt to crack a system or perform a malicious attack. They will succeed. The less popular/less mainstream environments will be "Safer"
Have you ever caught yourself humming some of those old games music. For me probally Super Mario bro's for the origonal NES is my most common. And now evertime I hear somone with their Cell phone ringing its like "Guess that game!"
In the news: Bush and Kerry fight like two one armed blind men. On an important note: Nobuo Eumatsu has moved onto a new company "Smile Please" Aka. "Say Cheese"
Slashdot Mirror
The major cause of all the spam is the .gif/.jpeg style spam. There has been a significant increase of this "newer" spam while the levels of older text type spam are still the same.
What I found interesting (and was unable to locate) was some values a slashdotter posted for his environment. It was something like 8000 spam in OCT 2004 and 56000 spam in OCT 2005. It would be interesting to see what his OCT 2006 values were (If your reading this).
As the article indicated the Zombie farms are going to be the largest problem. Using a form of greylisting to stop or throttle connections will allow you to remove much of the spam prior to it hitting your filters. For those who do not know... A zombie farm is basically a bunch of infected computers that can have commands run remotely against them that they will perform such as a script that generates SMTP traffic. In this case spammers will pay these zombie farm controllers currency to shoot out billions of spam messages.
Anyway, Until we make it illegal to produce/profit of unsolicited email its just going to keep climbing.
When I used to call the fat kid a pig I wasn't to far off. Maybe the whole bacon thing is occuring because the amount of obese people in the world continues to climb? Cut the fat and we will be back to chicken.
I've only flown twice in my life. To Italy and back in September/Oct of this year. When I hit Italy it was a cakewalk. Showed the guy my passport he stamped it and I am in the country.
On the way back into the US it took me almost 3 hours and like 3-4 checkpoints later (In Philly) to finally be allowed to go to my next flight. This caused more than half the people in the line to miss their connection which only had 00:30 to 1:30 layovers. I was astounded at how ridiculous the measure we take in the US are. It still came down to the exact same things as when I landed in Italy they just made me walk through the same type of metal detectors.. take of my shoes etc. It seems VERY redundant. Hell, they even made me fill out a paper saying that I spent X money and brought back X goods into the country. Foriegners had to fill out some other additional form while in flight.
So basically what I am getting at is this: When do we draw the line? Is all of this false sense of saftey really worth the inconvience? If they really wanted to make flights safe they are going to need to stick us in airline jumpsuits (Like prisoners wear) and not allow us to carry anything onto the plane. With all of these saftey measures the guards barely even glanced at my passport. The stupid form I filled out the guy just threw it in a big bucket with the other thousand of them to either be tossed out or parsed through at some later time. How is that making me safe?
If I was a terrorist and trying to get into the country it would be very difficult because terrorists don't have access to finances to be able to purchase anything like a fake passport and clothing. And the security guys actually look up every single passport before they stamp it. And those stupid forms are all processed before they let you through. And you know terrorists are stupid they all carry metal objects like guns in their pocket before they go through the metal detectors.
Seriously, When is this crap going to end.
Does this guy read slashdot?
I have read several articles recently about people only buying audio CD's for some of the special perks inside of them besides just the music. Basically adding value to the CD purchase.
I think fundamentally digital downloads are more consumer friendly because in effect you cut out the middle men (Distrobution Centers/Resellers) and are able to get product directly to the user. Unfortunatly some of the digital download sites are charging to much per song to entice a greater number of legitmate downloaders.
Basically to justify the price of the CD's they need to add additional value and for digital only copies they need to lower the cost. I think their bloated prices are starting to finally catch up with them.
I want to qualify this first.. I am definitly not a scientist. But I am able to logically think things through.
While it is to be exploring different items in our solarsystem would it not be better to use the billions of dollars it costs to create/launch a mission such as this in researching better propulsion or life support systems for actually supporting true space stations or colonization of planets in other solarsystems. I honestly can't justify wasting my tax dollars on a simultaneous multi picture view of the sun. How could this be used to further any relivant research?
Alot of NASA's projects definitly bring "ooh's and ahh's" but are they really helping? Wasn't the last major breakthrough landing a person on the moon? Everything after it seems to be akin to how M$ keeps repackaging the NT kernal with a new interface.
Has anyone found an effective way of cracking regular SSL? Is not the whole point of SSL to just slow down the decryption to a point where even if decrypted the data is old enough to be useless?
I mean hell if SSL is weak encryption and we need stronger encryption should I not SUE verisign right now for providing a false sense of saftey?
Seriously, In an interview they asked some questions based on leadership that are occuring currently in my life. I litterally started the answer with "Don't laugh" And went into explaining Ventrilo and organizing 40 male/female players aged 15-40 into an organized group of people and my major role I took in being the Maintank and Raid leader.
... other people :)
Of course I did not mention the foul language and sexual innuendos that are constantly spouted by
I think they forgot to mention it took the guy 5 minutes to figure out that the round metal end does not go in his ear.
That very well may be true. But its funny how the communities opinion changes when a person is caught red handed. In a court that would be viable evidence. In the community at large it would not be. While I don't want "Big Brother" constantly breathing down my neck if I avoid acting like a criminal or in truth being a criminal I don't have much to worry about.
One thing that people seem to fail to realize is stereotypes are there for a reason. People who act suspicious or look suspicious usually are doing some suspicious activity. Unless this person was framed they most likely were involved in activity that sent a red flag up the ladder at HP.
If this was common practice most of us that are posting our very heated opinions on this specific site would have long ago lost our jobs due to company policy.
WoW's craft system was a joke. I initially went with a weaponsmith and quickly learned that you can easily obtain better weapons with much less work. Even top end crafted items are pretty much garbage compared to what I was able to obtain easily in the raids I was leading (Using past tense because I ebayed my char)
:).
:)
DAOC had a solid craft system. Unfortunatly once the population dwindled there were not nearly as many crafters. In the first few years of the game and directly after housing was implimented it was very easy to create/sell your wares.
SWG at inital release before the major revamp had the best craft system todate. The entire game was a player driven economy by the crafters. I could write several pages outlining how great this craft system was but I won't
I suppose my question also is a craft system. This is a key feature to any MMO that really brings me to enjoy and stay playing said game for a long period of time. I played WoW for about a year. I played DAOC for about 3 years. The difference in the quality of crafting was night and day. (And I quit SWG cause I prefered sex over SWG.. it was either her or SWG
Well for the full use of the 100mbits connection if you read the fine line it states: "must be within 4000mm's of optic hub"
At this point the only speed ISP's talk about is download speed. Even with my 8mbits Cable connection I've never done a single download that maxes this speed. While fast download is great its the other side that most people need to be boosted. However with ISP's not wanting people to be able to run server class systems off their consumer provided "Cheap" internet they are not going to boost the upload caps anytime soon. I suppose it will be funny with a 100mbits down and 500kmbits up connection for only $29.95 for the first 3 months!
Courts should really be required to do at least a little research prior to passing judgement. As it stands right now the average corporate environment has around 80% of outside mail blocked because it is spam. Some of these companies are processing upwards of a million outside mails a day and even after filtering out 80% of the messages their mail servers are hammered. Knocking out a company like Spamhaus would cause every corporation to small business in at least north america to invest in 3-5 times more hardware to handle all of the spam.
The thing that really cracks me up about this whole scenario is this is one of the types of court cases that people still joke about. "You ever hear about the guy who fell through the skylight and broke his leg when attempting to rob the house. And how he won the lawsuit?". If anything our whole law system needs to be reworked.
I would like to point out that using UO is mostly an invalid point of reference.
UO was basically the first Major MMORPG release. The concepts, needed infrastructure and expectations had not been set.
There is well over a decade of history/knowledge that Blizzard could have pooled from experts to garner the information nessicary to pull off a very sucsessful launch.
I play WoW. It is a great game. The server I happened to pick on opening day went from low volume and now is a high volume server.
The lag issues I can deal with. The occasional (around once an hour) client crashes I can deal with.
The major gripe is them implimenting Server Queue's. I understand fully their reasoning. And if the game did not drop you once an hour on average it would not be a bad thing. But with having to wait 1-1.5 hours to even play its a little past being frustrating.
Last night my WoW experiance consisted of this:
Login to 1.5 hour Queue wait.
Take 2 flight paths (ruffly 10 mins)
Ride a mount through 1 zone (ruffly 5 mins)
Kill around 10 creatures (ruffly 10 mins)
Zone Crash.
Queue wait 1.5 hours.
Went and watched WWE wrestling as an alternitive entertainment.
And I bet this was experianced by 10-20% of their players on the high pop servers. SO I would estimate 50-100k people today could share a similar story.
I am all for an alternate energy/fuel source we can mass produce to replace a limited resource.
/. has said many times. Nuclear = bad word to the public.
The problem goes back to what
A quote from my fav book:
Wizards first Rule: People Are Stupid.
People can be made to believe any lie because they want to believe it is true, or because they are afraid that it is true.
Working in the support field for a software/security company I would have to agree with the "Demographic" as a general stance.
There are however AOL users who choose AOL for several reasons. 1. No other service in their area. 2. They travel ALOT, AOL is available just about everywhere. Thus instead of relying on being in an area where they can use free Wi-Fi or making sure the hotel they stay at offers free connections. They can just dial a local number and they are online.
Now I would say the two I listed are a HUGE percentage but they do make up some.
This is my opinion after playing for ruffly 6 hours: First, They offered a limited "Trial peroid" This
requires absolutly no funds from you. This removes the hesitance of worrying if the game is worth actually
paying for.
The client is just a tad over 100MB. The game is huge. Would I think that is possible after seeing all of
these mega came corps. putting out equal quality/size games yet they require 3-5CD's?
The game play is interesting. A combination of Jumpgate/Space&Beyond. Personally I like it more than both.
Space&beyond was run missions OVER and OVER. It lacked content/fun. Jumpgate took forever to do ANYTHING.
This game is fast paced. I'm almost 2 2 1 1 certs outta 4 possible in each. This is in 6 hours and the
first 3 trying to figure out how stuff works.
So far I would give it a 7 outta 10 for above average graphics. Fun/fast play.
I will not be supprised if we start seeing statistics/polls manufactured by the tobacco monopolies trying to make this tech out to be "Bad news". This could really cut into their profits if it hits the american market. Next up will be spitless chewing tobacco
>Rich people are richer, the deficit is skyrocketing, we've invaded Iraq and killed 100,000 Iraqis... I'm sorry but you really need to take a few steps into reality. First - When HAVEN'T the rich gotten richer. It's always been "It takes money to make money". Second - The Deficit is not "Skyrocketing" It's no longer on a downward trend over the next 10 years. I Deficit is already HUGE. And finally - You really need to actually READ the news article claiming 100k iraqi's are dead. They never stated there are 100k dead. They stated that our equation of 250% better chance of dying equates to 100k people dead. There are only 15k reported dead... and i'll be nice Give or take 10k
This is not a MAC bashing. It's just frustrating when people try to use polls to state an opinion other than a fact. Words like "More" Windows computer have been hacked. Well of course they constitute 90% of the computers (declining now). MAC's are solid computers. But my first "Hacked" computer I've ever known was a MAC. I hit a Javascript website that ran a Applescript on me and caused my font to change to something like 500. Since all I could see was one portion of the "Apple logo" boarder I ended up having to reinstall everything. The point is. If people attempt to crack a system or perform a malicious attack. They will succeed. The less popular/less mainstream environments will be "Safer"
Slashdot has been /.'ed. The reasons for this constipation um uh slowness is unknown.
Have you ever caught yourself humming some of those old games music. For me probally Super Mario bro's for the origonal NES is my most common. And now evertime I hear somone with their Cell phone ringing its like "Guess that game!"
In the news: Bush and Kerry fight like two one armed blind men. On an important note: Nobuo Eumatsu has moved onto a new company "Smile Please" Aka. "Say Cheese"